Part I: The Absolute is the Adorable1. Wisdom's Frame of Reference2. Existence3. Subsistence4. Value Dynamics5. The Absolute and the Relative6. The Philosophy of Necessity7. The Absolute is the Adorable

PART II: The Unitive Approach to Religion and Theology8. Science and Religion Unitively Approached9. The Lord's Prayer for Man10. The Lost Idiom of the Bible11. Allah the Absolute12. Temple Exoterics13. The Androgynous God of South India14. The Philosophy of the Divine Family of Shiva15. The Spiritual Role of the Sikhs

PART III: Guruhood16. The Glory of Guruhood17. A Guru Tradition Above Time and Clime18. The Role of the Guru Today

PART IV: Integration of the Sciences19. Science and Human Values20. Science and Certitude21. Mathematics and Mysticism22. Can A Science Be Sung?23. Towards a Common Speech for Science and Vedanta24.'The Travesty of Verbosity

This strikingly innovative elucidation charts out the structural map of wisdom -- the finalised knowledge concerning life, both in its generic and specific aspects. Nataraja Guru, the eminent contemporary thinker, handles the theme as well as the methodology in a very original way. Thematically it encom-passes the entire range of human wisdom, including epistemology, axiology, mathematics, sociology, politics and mysticism. The author presents a scheme of coherent pattern in which all distinctions between contemplative and active, functional and theoretical, contingent and necessary, Eastern and Western dissolve into the unity of the Absolute Truth. The subject-matter and object-matter of wisdom when put in proper perspective around the normative notion of the Absolute, culminate in the idea of common human happiness. In the age of excessive specialization and compart-mentalization, Nataraja Guru's handling of the subject matter is a unique response to the legitimate cry for unification and integration. The methodology adopted throughout this interpretation is unitively taking care of the vertical progress of human wisdom along with the horizontal process of adjustment with the incidental necessities that are demanded by the process.

Nataraja Guru's insightful combination of the spiritual with the modem science stands out as a tall land-mark in the field of contemporary wisdom and scholar-ship. It is a powerful beacon to the solace-seeking mankind that is being tortured by the outrageously materialistic society.